I’m a software dev in the UK who’s into sci-fi, fantasy, videogames and music.

Big on doctor who, star trek, discworld, final fantasy, dream theater, and people’s right to be themselves.

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  • I don’t know tons of the detail but I understand the principle. The immutable part of the system is really just an applied oci container image for any ublue based distro.

    Certain mount points are writable and persisted (e.g. /home), but otherwise you can just reimage the entire system with any compatible (ublue based) image. Then each image is built by layering changes using ostree. So that’s how you get the different distros.

    Silverblue is ublue with gnome, kinoite is ublue with KDE, Bazzite layers steam, proprietary Nvidia drivers and other stuff mainly gaming related, etc.

    System updates (which tend to be regular) are just applying an updated image, so actually updating is effectively the same as rebasing.

    You can also yourself add ostree layers on top of the base image, and if you rebase to a different one your layers get reapplied on top.





  • It was fundamentally broken in 64-bit Windows for a long time due to a practically unfindable bug, so they just removed it once that was a mainstream option (Vista onwards).

    I think it’s been fixed or recreated now though?

    Full Tilt! was first published in 1995, comfortably before the inclusion of the Space Cadet table in Windows, which iirc was either '98 or Plus! for '95. I’m confident it wasn’t in any of the vanilla releases of Win 95.












  • An absolute classic of the C64 for me. That version really does shine, though the Master System also looks great!

    I feel the Amiga (can you tell we were a Commodore family?) looks put to shame by the Mega Drive a little, for the 16bit ones, but it’s interesting to hear your thoughts on it being more like a reimagining.

    Thanks so much for doing these write ups, they’re really fascinating and in depth.